Since this game is pretty much taking away many precious minutes of our life as we continue to try and finish the unlimited side quests... I propose that we share our adventures (coughstoriescough) with everyone else. Whether it be when you were first a noob and hit a chicken and everyone attacked you, to when you tried to pickpocket a guard in broad daylight. Spread the humor and we can laugh at ourselves in two months time and realize what retards we were in the realms of Tamriel.

So, er, yeah... Post if you want. Have no idea if this is going to be a success or not, but here goes nothing!

So. I just talk to the wizard who sends me to get the bloody stone and I'm just about to leave Whiterun. This stupid wizard questions me about whether I'm a wizard or not and challenges me to a duel in the middle of the city. Being about level 2 I think it'll be easy. I accept and get slammed with two fireballs and die.

I reload the game.. Go back to the same spot and he asks me again! I refuse him this time and he says he won't take no for an answer. He then proceeds to own me. Frustrated I reload it again and decline the duel and make a run for the gate and think I'm safe. He comes out of the city and starts to chase me while throwing fireballs and jumping around. I run all the way to the mountains and get slammed in the head by a giant club from some giant that I never saw before in my previous games.

If this is what adept difficulty is like, I'm scared of what the highest difficulty is.

Okay, so. It only took forever, but I've finally played it. And, gods willing, I'd never sleep again if I could.

Basically, I've run around with my bow, catching fish, hunting deer and the like, skirted around giants, killed vampires, read a crap ton of books, made a bunch of food, even enchanted my weapon, and I haven't seen a dragon yet. XD The amount of freedom is ridiculous.

_________________"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."

So for all the PC players out there, what mods do you use, if any? I used all the graphics enhancements from the STEP compilation, and the Skyrim Redone Overhaul to make the combat and perk trees much more interesting and intend to use mods from the GEMS compilation to further improve the mechanics of the game. I also use Better Towns and Villages Compilation, and the Places mod that adds four lore-friendly villages to Skyrim.

I also use Opethfeldt ENB with SweetFX and some stuff that enables fist weapons and fist-fighting in general.

With all these mods all I really do is stare at 4096x4096 res dirt, very entertaining...though I am kidding. I play a Dark Elf/Dunmer Longbow Archer that summons familiars, sometimes use crossbows, dabble heavily in alchemy and cooking.

I don't use mods. My friends bug me to try some, but I never end up doing it. I haven't even gotten the expansion packs. That game paid for itself with the time that I played it. I don't need to "expand" my experience.